Robert Kennedy Quotes

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

The world belongs to those who show up.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

The test of any man lies in action.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

Right wins only when we dare and act.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk - I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.

I ask myself in every game to be the one to take responsibility.